Tuesday 29 November
Public Policy
Discussing Defense and National Security Issues
Administrative Items for Class
PAPERS COMING BACK SOON...
Announcements?
What is "New & Groovy in Public Policy?"
FINAL EXAM IS ON Wednesday 14 December 2005 @ 9am in Thaw 216
THE PUBLIC POLICY TOOLKIT
Definitions - What is public policy?
Contexts - What information is needed when making policy?
Models - What are specific ways to analyze policy making?
Federalism - Recognizing Levels of Gov't & Tools Used
Variables - Cause (IND) and Effect (DEP)
Process - Stages of Public Policy
Data Conclusions "Filling In Gaps" and Policy Consistency
Policymaker Types
Lowi Policy Categories
Evaluation - DEALING WITH EXTERNALITIES
SHOULD WE DRILL FOR
MORE OIL IN ALASKA?
Environmental, Economic and Evaluation Policies
Play in Peoria - Policy Environment in Systems Theory
Indicators - IN ANY policy
Before and After - What policy/contextual event changed things (9.11.01)
Others? _____________
Pre/Post
With v. W/out
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Symbolic and Tangible Effects
Ratios...
Theories Influencing a Policy Environment - Continuum of Ideologies
VERY PRO _____________________________VERY CON
Wrestling
with Group Behavior Evaluation, Economics and and COMPLEX Issue Networks
ENN - Environmental News Network
PUBLIC
CHOICE Theory, Group Theory and Externalities
Q.
What is the price of clean drinking water for our children?
Priceless….yet
in today’s world it actually must HAVE a price
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
History
– Many years…..1970 Earth Day to today
Approaches
– Command and Control v. Market Influenced
REDUCE
POLLUTION
and BEST MANAGEMENT
Air
Water
Land
CURRENT
ISSUES
Level of Risk
Linking Externalities - Health and Environmental Policy?
TAKINGS
– When the government tells you to do something to your land in order to
better protect the environment; are they taking away your rights?
POLLUTION
CREDITS and EMISSIONS TRADING – Should pollution be traded on the open
market
GROWTH
– Is growth the only measure of a society’s success?
LOCAL
ISSUES…But a global context “Think Globally, Act Locally.”
NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
Mixing Foreign Policy and Defense Policy
WHAT
ARE THE TOP TWO NATIONAL SECURITY THREATS AGAINST AMERICA?
WHEN SHOULD THE UNITED STATES DEPLOY ITS MILITARY AND/OR USE FORCE?
THREAT
ASSESSMENT
STRATEGIES
FORCE
LEVELS
BUDGET
REQUESTS
FOREIGN
POLICY TOOLS
to
Global
Superpower
in
20
years
Spanish
American War
World War I – Global Assistance to European Neighbors
Interwar
– Isolation or Not
December 7, 1941 – Not!
World War II
Two
Front War Europe and
Asia/Pacific
Los
Alamos, Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Cold War
Nuclear –
SU v. US
Korea –
Cuba – Vietnam – The World through a Bipolar Lens
Containment
– NATO v. Warsaw Pace
Marshall
Plan
Deterrence
MAD
Arms Control
SALT I and
II and ABM Treaty– limit amount of new nuclear weapons
Nonproliferation
-
START I and
II – Reduce the amount already in place
Chemicals
and Biological
Star Wars
– 1983 – Ballistic Missile Defense and SDI
End
of the Cold War
Expanding
NATO
New
threats and New Enemies
Middle
East
Pacific Rim
South Asia
Desert
Storm
Terrorism
Gander, Newfoundland
Pan Am 103
Waco/Ruby Ridge
Oklahoma City
September
11, 2001
ACTORS
The
National Security Team
POTUS
VP
NSA
and NSC
DCI
JCS
SecDef
SecState
Others - GlobalSecurity.org
Organizations:
Armed
Forces
Army
Navy
Air
Force
Marines
Intelligence (INTEL) and MANY intelligence sources
September 11, 2001 - I http://www.9-11commission.gov/ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/911/
...and Citizens (FAS)
ACTIVITIES
Nuclear
Triad
BM
= Ballistic Missile
CM’s
= Cruise Missile
Megatons
1,000,000 tons of TNT
v. WWII
20 Kiltons or 20,000 tons of TNT
WHAT
SHOULD WE SPEND OUR MILITARY BUDGET ON?
Transportation
Support
War
Fighting